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Lette/rs Patent No. 95,491, dated October 5, 1869.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all wh'om fit may concern Be it known that I, ALLEN LAPHAM, of Paterson, in the county of Passaic, and State of New Jersey, have invented a newr and useful Improvement in Chairs; and I do hereby declare that the 'followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. Y

The figure is a front view of a chair constructed in accordance with my improvement, parts being broken away. to show the construction.

My invention has for its object to improve the construction of chairs, so as to make them stronger, more durable, and less liable to become loose and shaky than when constructed in the ordinary manner; and

lt consists in the chair, constructed as hereinafter more fully described.

A are the legs of the chair-frame, upon the upper` ends of which are formed tenons, which enter' mortises in the seat or'seat-frame B of the chair. The tenons and the mortises into which they enter are made dovetaled upon' one side, the said mortses being made suicently large to 4'allow said tenons tol enter easily.

The tenons are wedges O, driven straight side of said tenons.-

then secured in said mortises by into the said mortises, upon the The projecting ends of dovetailed upon one side,

the other or straight side of the wedges C should then be out oi ush with the surface from which they project.

The posts -or standards D, that support the back and arms E, either or both, may be secured in place in the same 4manner as the legs A.

Therounds F may also be secured to the legs A in t the same manner, it desired.

1f desired, the wedges O may be dipped into glue y before being driven into their places.

By this construct-ion, the variouspalts of the chair will be rigidly and igmly; connected together, and should they ever become loose, the wedges G vmay be easily replaced with others a little larger, again making the frame as strong and rigid 'as before.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-T An improved chair, the parts of the frame of which are ccnne'ctedto each other by tenons and mortises, and locked together by.

wedges driven in upon said tenon and mortise, substantially as herein show'n and described, and for the purposeset forth.

- ALLEN LAPHAM.

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